Word: sub-par
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...Winds. It looked as if he might. In the second round he pitched dead on the pin with perfect aim, sank 30-ft. putts, took the lead with another sub-par 70. But on the third day the winds came. Cotton had counted on St. Andrews' unpredictable gales to confound the four visiting Americans. But Cotton's own game was confounded too. The winds troubled Sammy Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with a reliable swing and an unreliable temperament; his powerful drives were swooped up by gusts and landed in the rough. When somebody told him the same thing...
Mulcahy, riding high in a fiveway tie for sixth after carding a neat 76 on his morning round, wilted under the sub-par pace of "Georgia" George Hamer, the eventual winner. Mulcahy, New England Intercollegiate titleholder, had a four round aggregate of 153-76-84-313 in the 72-hole contest...
...Spokane last week a gallery of 10,000, the biggest crowd in the history of the Professional Golfers Association watched the biggest P.G.A. upset since Tom Creavy beat Denny Shute in 1931. Through six sub-par days, the favorite, blond, methodical Veteran Byron Nelson, fought his way to the finals. His opponent there was 29-year-old, balding Bob Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., playing his first major championship while awaiting Army induction...
...there were just too many displays of awkward amateurishness in "Johnny Come Lately" to make it anything but a sub-par picture. Most glaring weakness was the dialogue, with the plot and some of the acting fighting hard to make it a photofinish. Cagney did his best, and, by working like a dog, made most of his scenes tolerable--many even enjoyable...
After rolling up two successive record-breaking scores against sub-par squads, the point-crazy Freshman basketball team will meet real opposition in the undefeated Dartmouth '45 quintet tonight at 8 o'clock in the Indoor Athletic Building...